More people in Seattle taking the bus

SEATTLE -- As gas prices have been going up, more people have been taking the bus in the Seattle area. King County Metro says there were 395,000 boardings in April, a record.

A spokeswoman for the transit agency, Linda Thielke, says during the first few months of this year boardings were up 6 percent over a year earlier. The county operates 1,300 buses. Metro, the Seattle area public transit system, added 22 new buses Friday to help ease rush-hour crowding.